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Great American Forwarders, Inc., B-40800, May 2, 2013

  • August 12, 2013
  • Minimum Requirements
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Link:         GAO Opinion Agency:    Department of the Army Disposition:  Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Great American Forwarders, Inc. (GRAF) regarding the exclusion of its proposal, by the Department of Defense, Surface Deployment and Distribution Command, Personal Property Division, from eligibility to receive shipment awards for international household goods. The

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Rocamar Engineering Services, Inc., B-406514, June 20, 2012

  • June 27, 2012
  • Minimum RequirementsProduct TestingTerms of the Solicitation

Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Rocamar Engineering Services, Inc. Agency: Department of State Disposition: Protest Sustained. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest against the rejection of the protestor’s proposal of a modular bastion wall defense system for failing a fire/burn test conducted by the agency is sustained where the record shows that the test was unfair and unreasonable.

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JRS Management, B-405355, September 28, 2011

  • October 19, 2011
  • Minimum Requirements

Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Justice Disposition: Protest dismissed. Keywords: Minimum Requirements General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Where minimum requirements of a proposal are not met, the Agency is free to reject the offer for failing to meet the minimum requirements. —————————————————————————————————————————– JRS Management protests the rejection of its quotation under a request for quotations (RFQ),

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GC&E Systems Group, Inc., B-401315; B-401315.2, July 9, 2009

  • July 9, 2009
  • Minimum Requirements

Link:   GAO Opinion Agency:          Department of the Army Disposition:  Protest denied. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest that agency misled protester into increasing its staffing and, consequently, its price, when it provided vendors with government’s minimum estimated staffing is denied where agency specifically advised offerors that estimate was just that, and that it was vendor’s responsibility to

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Carahsoft Technology Corporation, B-401169; B-401169.2, June 29, 2009

  • June 29, 2009
  • FSS ContractMinimum Requirements

Link:   GAO Opinion Agency:          National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Disposition:  Protest sustained in part, denied in part. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging an order under a Federal Supply Schedule contract for faceted search capability software pursuant to a competition conducted under Federal Acquisition Regulation subpart 8.4 is sustained where the agency unreasonably issued an order on the

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4D Security Solutions, Inc., B-400351.2; B-400351.3, December 8, 2008

  • December 8, 2008
  • Material Solicitation TermsMinimum RequirementsTechnical Acceptability

Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Energy Disposition: Protest denied. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency reasonably evaluated and rejected the protester’s quotation as technically unacceptable where the protester submitted an ambiguous quotation that failed to comply with a material specification requirement in the solicitation. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: 4D challenges the evaluation and rejection of its

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